This unit got crammed together and rushed due to a holiday and inservice days and tons of absences and such, so for the test today we allowed kids to write a half page "cheat sheet" of notes to use.

One boy stayed after school yesterday, working with one of the other algebra teachers to come up with all the information he needed for his notes page. Today, he walks into my classroom with a paper that has half a sentence on it.

Me: [student], where are the rest of your notes?
Student: That's it, that's all of them.
Me: But I thought you and [other teacher] figured out all the stuff you needed yesterday.
Student: Yeah, we did, but...well...you're not going to believe this...a monkey erased all of it.

*sigh*

Considering only 5/60 kids so far even made an attempt at the notes page, he's sadly ahead of the game.